In message <28D10D13-988B-4C7D-833B-EBA6E1BC1A63@hopcount.ca>, Joe Abley writes :
On 2011-02-28, at 09:51, Nick Hilliard wrote:
I will be a lot more sympathetic about listening to arguments / = explanations about this insanity the day that the IETF filters out arp = and ipv4 packets from the conference network and depends entirely on = ipv6 for connectivity for the entire conference.
It's hard to see v6-only networks as a viable, general-purpose solution = to anything in the foreseeable future. I'm not sure why people keep = fixating on that as an end goal. The future we ought to be working = towards is a consistent, reliable, dual-stack environment. There's no = point worrying about v6-only operations if we can't get dual-stack = working reliably.
[I also find the knee-jerk "it's different from IPv4, the IETF is = stupid" memes to be tiring. Identifying questionable design decisions = with hindsight is hardly the exclusive domain of IPv6; there are = tremendously more crufty workarounds in IPv4, and far more available = hindsight. Complaining about IPv6 because it's different from IPv4 = doesn't get us anywhere.]
Because the machines we deploy today may still be running in 10 years and we don't want them stopping the network going IPv6 only then.
Joe=
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